Palin: Christie’s scandal is nothing compared to Obama’s scandals

posted at 6:28 pm on January 10, 2014 by Allahpundit

She doesn’t give him a pass on it — as you’ll see, the word “atrocious” is mentioned — but contextualizing Bridgegate vis-a-vis the NSA and Benghazi (and the IRS, and Bob Gates’s accusations, etc) does Christie a big favor. Given the bad blood between them, she could have been much harsher.

Has any all-star tea partier really unloaded on Christie yet, by the way? It’s strange that after three days of punishing media coverage, the Republican who’s taken the biggest swing at him is … this guy.

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The media’s coverage of this “scandal” is atrocious.
After giving Obama a pass on much more serious scandals, their outrage over a traffic jam should leave no one in doubt that today’s “mainstream media” is nothing but a house organ for the Democrat Party.

Dead American soldiers, law enforcement officers, and diplomats, the IRS used as a tool to punish Obama’s political enemies, concerted efforts to make the shutdown “painful” to ordinary Americans (and WWII heroes) for political advantage, Obama’s outright refusal to enforce laws he doesn’t like, and the list goes on.

The idea that Christie shutting down a bridge is a *serious* matter that deserves outrage and investigation is laugh inducing.

Christie is a POS, and his staff closed that bridge because they thought he would want them to…even if he didn’t explicitly tell them to do it. But Obama deserves impeachment several times over. In fact, he should be in prison.

It doesn’t matter. The left will continue to be protected by the media and the right will continue to be trashed by the media and the left. It’s a lost cause because Republican wimps don’t know how to fight and win.

Has any all-star tea partier really unloaded on Christie yet, by the way? It’s strange that after three days of punishing media coverage, the Republican who’s taken the biggest swing at him is … this guy.

Why *should* anyone unload on him? This is bullshit, unless he’s proven to have been directly involved.

And I *loathe* the guy, ffs – but this is just bullshit; a diversion, yet another case of leftist media hypocrisy, etc.

The New Jersey state Assembly Friday released more than 1,000 pages of documents obtained under subpoena concerning the George Washington Bridge lane closures, an unfolding scandal that has engulfed the administration of Republican Gov. Chris Christie.

Some of the records were submitted by Christie associate and former Port Authority of New York and New Jersey official David Wildstein, who enacted the September 2013 bridge lane closures after Mr. Christie’s former deputy chief of staff, Bridget Anne Kelly, emailed him saying, “Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee,” records show. The closures were apparently meant as political retribution against the administration’s perceived adversaries, including the local mayor, who declined to endorse Mr. Christie in his successful 2013 reelection bid.

U.S. Justice Department officials said Thursday they would scrutinize whether the lane closures violated federal law.

I don’t like the guy either but the double standard in the media is a bit much for me….

sandee on January 10, 2014 at 6:34 PM

With all due respect, what double standard.

I think my Christie and Obama hating creds are clear. But Obama’s abuse of power is different than that of the fat man.

To be the same thing, it would have to be proven that Valarie Jarrett was the one orchestrating the IRS attacks on conservative groups. Presidents have much more ability to invoke plausible deniability. It is all corruption but you can’t compare the Obama administration to that of the fat man.

Christie’s supporters are already starting in on the “nuts and sluts” defense that Clinton made popular. According to them, Christie was apparently holding Bible studies and puppy adoption events while one of his deputies was out there closing down major roadways. She was a despot drunk with power who acted alone.

I don’t like the guy either but the double standard in the media is a bit much for me….

sandee on January 10, 2014 at 6:34 PM

With all due respect, what double standard.

I think my Christie and Obama hating creds are clear. But Obama’s abuse of power is different than that of the fat man.

To be the same thing, it would have to be proven that Valarie Jarrett was the one orchestrating the IRS attacks on conservative groups. Presidents have much more ability to invoke plausible deniability. It is all corruption but you can’t compare the Obama administration to that of the fat man.

Happy Nomad on January 10, 2014 at 6:55 PM

Maybe I misread, but it looks like you guys actually agree?

And it’s my point as well; i loathe Christie, *and* it boils me to see the media going apeshit over this bridge nothingburger and yawn at the far more egregious – and real – and directly attributable to Obama – scandals.

Saying “Christie’s scandal is nothing compared to Obama’s scandals” is a total waste of time. It does compare to Obama scandals, it’s worst than Obama’s scandals if the MSM want to make it out that way.

Christie should be coming out of the chute like a bull and telling the MSM that they have crossed the boundaries of fair journalism.

If he has nothing to hide, then he’s got the power of his bully pulpit to fight back.

Instead of wasting brain power on Palin’s silly schoolyard”they did it too” statements. Boy… she sure convinced me.

I think my Christie and Obama hating creds are clear. But Obama’s abuse of power is different than that of the fat man.

To be the same thing, it would have to be proven that Valarie Jarrett was the one orchestrating the IRS attacks on conservative groups. Presidents have much more ability to invoke plausible deniability. It is all corruption but you can’t compare the Obama administration to that of the fat man.

Happy Nomad on January 10, 2014 at 6:55 PM

Yeah, but the media has never been one bit curious what Obama was doing the night of the Benghazi attack. And they’ve never been curious why Hillary was unwilling to provide adequate security there.

She would spend the first four years using the bully pulpit to broom out the disease,

And use the next four to restore the Constitution to its rightful place at the center of our governance.

She could ask for the return of the Churchill statue, and then ask the National Archives to move their copy of the Constitution to the Oval Office for the duration of her term – just so she knows its there as she steers the ship of state.

Christie’s supporters are already starting in on the “nuts and sluts” defense that Clinton made popular. According to them, Christie was apparently holding Bible studies and puppy adoption events while one of his deputies was out there closing down major roadways. She was a despot drunk with power who acted alone.

We’ll see how that plays out when the document dump is fully parsed.

Happy Nomad on January 10, 2014 at 6:59 PM

Happy Nomad:

Yup,..this is the Perfect DisTractionary Lefty Storm
that the Left has been praying for at the Liberal Alter,

Saying “Christie’s scandal is nothing compared to Obama’s scandals” is a total waste of time. It does compare to Obama scandals, it’s worst than Obama’s scandals if the MSM want to make it out that way.

Christie should be coming out of the chute like a bull and telling the MSM that they have crossed the boundaries of fair journalism.

If he has nothing to hide, then he’s got the power of his bully pulpit to fight back.

Instead of wasting brain power on Palin’s silly schoolyard”they did it too” statements. Boy… she sure convinced me.

Saying “Christie’s scandal is nothing compared to Obama’s scandals” is a total waste of time. It does compare to Obama scandals, it’s worst than Obama’s scandals if the MSM want to make it out that way.

Christie should be coming out of the chute like a bull and telling the MSM that they have crossed the boundaries of fair journalism.

If he has nothing to hide, then he’s got the power of his bully pulpit to fight back.

Instead of wasting brain power on Palin’s silly schoolyard”they did it too” statements. Boy… she sure convinced me.

Walter L. Newton on January 10, 2014 at 7:01 PM

But Christie is just like most establishment RINOs and GOP’ers – he’s going to default to the ankle grabbing position when it comes to the media. They might not LIIIIIIIIIIIKE him anymore.

Why are you complaining about one of the few people willing to go on record and take the hits to state the obvious to the oblivious?

She would spend the first four years using the bully pulpit to broom out the disease,

And use the next four to restore the Constitution to its rightful place at the center of our governance.

She could ask for the return of the Churchill statue, and then ask the National Archives to move their copy of the Constitution to the Oval Office for the duration of her term – just so she knows its there as she steers the ship of state.

turfmann on January 10, 2014 at 7:04 PM

She should be. She would be more competent than just about anybody that is likely to be running. But too many people in this country have been convinced that she’s stupid and they like their celebrity presidents, even when they can’t govern the creation of a website.

Don’t listen to the peanut gallery, bluegill.
They give you crap disagreeing with them, and when you have the integrity to admit you were wrong, and still comment, they still give you crap.
Hang in there.
davidk on January 10, 2014 at 7:14 PM

Saying “Christie’s scandal is nothing compared to Obama’s scandals” is a total waste of time. It does compare to Obama scandals, it’s worst than Obama’s scandals if the MSM want to make it out that way.

Christie should be coming out of the chute like a bull and telling the MSM that they have crossed the boundaries of fair journalism.

If he has nothing to hide, then he’s got the power of his bully pulpit to fight back.

Instead of wasting brain power on Palin’s silly schoolyard”they did it too” statements. Boy… she sure convinced me.

Walter L. Newton on January 10, 2014 at 7:01 PM

.Dude ? . . . . . . . . . . She took down those persons who make their living in the field of (so called) professional journalism, more than she did Governor Christie.

She would be more competent than just about anybody that is likely to be running. But too many people in this country have been convinced that she’s stupid

Bitter Clinger on January 10, 2014 at 7:10 PM

Bears reposting:

I wouldn’t say that Palin is definitely a moron because she drew a blank at perky Katie’s question about what periodicals she read. I’d like to see more well-documented, recorded blunders before dismissing her as a mindless talking head.

Did she call Europe a “country?” Did she say Austrians speak “Austrian?” Did she say Hawaii is in Asia? Did she say that there are 57 states? Does she think we need more “Arabic translators” in Afghanistan so we can understand the natives? Does she believe we have an “intercontinental” railroad?

Does she think the Constitution was written “20 centuries ago?” Did she claim that Emma Lazarus raised funds to build the Statue of Liberty? Does she think Mexico was a nation before the US was even an idea? Did the American army liberate Auschwitz?

Does she celebrate “Cinco de Cuatro”, admire the Penn State “Nitally” Lions, and root for the White Sox (not a one of whom she can identify by name) while reminiscing about the good ol’ days at “Cominskey Field?” Does she commend navy “corpse-men” and give a shout-out to the many fallen heroes who are in her audience? Does she lament the 10,000 dead in a Kansas storm when the death toll is actually 12? Does she really think a payment can decrease by 3000%? If she has asthma, does she grab for her “breathalyzer?”

Those are just a handful of idiocies I can pull off the top of my head.

Lets see,….AF/1 flys over New York and SCARES THE HELL OUT OF New Yorkers,

but hey,..who gives a Rats *ss!

Good thing it wasn’t a GOP CiC!
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Don’t listen to the peanut gallery, bluegill.
They give you crap disagreeing with them, and when you have the integrity to admit you were wrong, and still comment, they still give you crap.
Hang in there.

To be the same thing, it would have to be proven that Valarie Jarrett was the one orchestrating the IRS attacks on conservative groups. Presidents have much more ability to invoke plausible deniability. It is all corruption but you can’t compare the Obama administration to that of the fat man.

Happy Nomad on January 10, 2014 at 6:55 PM

First of all, is it proven that Christie’s staffers “orchestrated” the lane closings?

Second of all, we and the press don’t know who orchestrated the IRS attacks because they have no interest in finding out who did so. There is at least a double standard in caring about responsibility.

(Reuters)
Documents related to the bridge closure scandal engulfing New Jersey Governor Chris Christie revealed on Friday that authorities were deeply divided about the shutdown, with one warning it was illegal and risking people’s lives.

More than 1,000 pages of anxiously awaited documents subpoenaed by New Jersey lawmakers investigating the massive, four-day traffic jam on the George Washington bridge were made public after revelations that Christie’s staff appeared to have orchestrated the closure as political payback.

Christie, seen as a likely contender for the White House in 2016, has said he knew nothing about the plan until damaging emails from his staff were revealed on Wednesday. He fired a close aide and publicly apologized for the fiasco.
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